In the announcement, university Athletic Director Michael Waddell said the plan is to reconfigure the entire Athletics Department to save money and stay in line with federal athletic guidelines. It would mean the school would get rid of men's soccer and baseball teams but reinstate the men's tennis program and add scholarship funds to other men's and women's sports.

Waddell said the changes would save the school more than $800,000 a year.

"We have seven men's sports, and three of those sports – men's basketball, lacrosse and football -- were sports that we felt were central to our mission," Waddell said. "The sports of baseball and soccer had both the participant count and also the financial attachment through scholarship and operating budgets to where their impact could help us achieve more of the overall, broad-based goals."

But many students aren't happy about the decision, including the athletes.

"We were kind of blindsided by this," said baseball player Dominic Frantantuono.

"I'm extremely angry and frustrated. It feels like it's out of our hands, taken from us for no reason," said baseball player Hunter Bennett.

Within hours of the announcement, a "Save Towson Soccer" Facebook page was put up, and it had more than 1,500 members.

"We want to just find another way," said former soccer player and Assistant Coach Billy Chiles, who said supporters are already organizing and hoping to fight the recommendations. "Hopefully we can gather enough voices and kind of voice our opinion and just kind of just say we'd like things to be different, and hopefully they're not finalized yet."

If approved, the cuts will go into effect after the 2012-2013 season. Current athletes would be able to stay under scholarship, but juniors Frantantuono and Bennett said if baseball doesn't stick around, they won't either.

"I would play for our team for this year, and we'd all stick together, but then after that, I obviously wouldn't stay here," Bennett said.